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7 Lock Maintenance Tips For Your Home

7 Lock Maintenance Tips For Your Home

Your door locks are one of your home’s first lines of defense against potential intruders. Ensuring that they remain functional will allow you to keep your home, as well as yourself and your loved ones, well-protected. However, that security might fail if you...
What Is A Mortise Lock?

What Is A Mortise Lock?

No single lock is the same because many different kinds are used in both residential and commercial buildings. Where both kinds of properties are concerned, a mortise lock is one of the most common types of lock used. Your next question is, understandably, “What is a...
All About Crash Bar Door Hardware

All About Crash Bar Door Hardware

Do you remember someone holding open a large metal door with a bar across it as you went outside during a school fire drill? That bar is actually known as a crash bar. Also known as panic bars, this item is a type of panic hardware. Panic hardware refers to any...
How To Lock A Crash Bar Door

How To Lock A Crash Bar Door

You work in a building with more than one hundred employees present on any given day. You clock in on time and leave right on the dot. During the workday, people can enter and exit any part of the building as they please. But after they leave, what is done to keep...